Nikkei says hackers used stolen credentials to access a development system on October 7, exposing 1.83 million records. Around 150,000 contained personal identifiers, including 120,000 with email addresses.
This follows two earlier account compromises at Nikkei this year, when hackers used an employee's Google Workspace account to send BEC emails.
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